DIRECTIONS – Take notes! Do not rush through the 6 steps below!

1. Know what is your AP focus (objective). Go to your Unit Guide For APWH – p. 152. Review Using the Unit Guide.

2. TIME MAP

World snapshot in the year 1960 CE
Titanic conflicts between 1914 and 1945 have gravely weakened the European nations. Their world-wide power has gone and new superpowers dominate the world.

- Europe 1960 CE Europe has experienced two devastating world wars, and is now divided between East and West.
- East Asia: China, Korea, Japan 1960 CE China, Japan and Korea have all experienced some of the most turbulent times in their entire history, as great wars have swept through East Asia.
- India and South Asia 1960 CE The long history of India and South Asia has entered a new chapter with the replacement of the British empire by independent republics.
- Africa 1960 CE The European nations are starting to withdraw from the empires in Africa.
- Middle East 1960 CE The Cold War has had a major impact on the Middle East.
- National Geographic – Interactive Mapping
- COUNTRY SIZE COMPARISON

Contents

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ASSIGNED TEXTBOOK READING –

Review Ch 18 – Focus on p. 544 – 548
Use the following resource: Textbook Reading Guidelines

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Video	Content	Historical Thinking Skills
1st Video	examine the causes of the end of the Cold War	1B – practicing how to explain historical development
2nd Video	examine the causes of the end of the Cold War	1B – practicing how to explain historical development

In this video Heimler walks you through three causes of the end of the Cold War, and it all aligns with the AP World History curriculum for Unit 8 topic 8 (8.8).

The first cause is the military and technological advancement of the United States, not least the Strategic Defense Initiative (dubbed Star Wars by its detractors).

The second cause was the failed Soviet invasion of Afghanistan which crippled the Soviet economy.

The third cause was Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika and glasnost which introduced economic and political freedoms to the states of the Soviet Union.

With all these causes pressing against the Soviet Union, it collapsed in 1991, thus bringing an end to the Cold War.